May 3, 2025

May the 4th Be With You, Beer Pong, Audrey Hepburn, NSYNC, Randy Travis, Bulldogging Invented

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Jeff would like to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers for him and his family during this tough time. God Bless

(2024) National Beer Pong day. National Star Wars day. Entertainment from 1694. Kent State massacre, 1st nonuplets (9 Babies), Battle of Coral Sea, 1st Grammy Awards. Todays birthdays - Bartolomeo Cristofori, John Speke, Auddrey Hepburn, Paul Geason, Nick Ashford, Stella Parton, Randy Travis, Ana Gasteyer, Lance Bass. Don Shula died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Star Wars theme
Beer pong song - Stuart Webb
Can't buy me love - The Beatles
Understand your man - Johnny Cash
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Solid like a rock - Ashford & Simpson
I want to hold you in my dreams tonight - Stella Parton
Hard rock bottom of your heart - Randy Travis
Bye Bye Bye - NSYNC
Exit - Its not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor.

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It is about today, presented by Cool Media. May the

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Fourth be with you. May fourth, it is National Star

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Trek Day. The British actually came up with that in

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nineteen seventy nine. Margaret Thatcher became the first women Prime

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Minister of Great Britain. On May fourth, her party put

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an ad in the London Daily Newspaper that read, may

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the fourth be with you, Maggie. Congratulations. Star Wars fans

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they jumped all over that and they made it through them.

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So today, while the nerds are having a movie marathon

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over at the Cool Table, we're going to celebrate a

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little different. It's not about the skill or about the props,

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about who has the sickest jump shot. Yeah, I guess

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there was the bragging rights, but who really cares at

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the end of the night. The beer punk song, So

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s allone, this is a per pong song, So s

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a long. This is a beer pong song, So.

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Sing a long.

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Hands don't get on bringing out chipong. This is the

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beer pong song. It is National beer Pong Day. Beer

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pong it actually started as a game called be route.

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Paddles are used to hit ping pong balls and the cups,

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and then you had to drink. When the late sixties

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they ditched the paddles and just started naming the ping

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pong balls and changed the name to beer pong. Now,

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what a great day for beer pong. You've got beer pong,

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You've got the Kentucky Derby to watch, you got Star Wars.

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I'll rolled into one, so have a blast to me.

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The fourth be with you. Well, let's see what's going

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on in entertainment on May fourth. It was about your

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nineteen sixty four number one album was The Beatles. Second

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album by the Beatles. The Beatles had the number one

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song with Cam't buy Me Love.

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By you bring my friends. It makes shoot me low

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right by you anything my friend may suit me lo

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right me. I don't care much the money money can.

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Johnny Cash. He had the number one country song with

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Understand your man.

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You would say the same old thing that you've been

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saying all along, and lay there in your bed and keeping.

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Your mouth shut to long call. Don't give me that

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old familiar crime cussing mall on loosetan you man, Johnny said,

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a little pissed. Uh. The number one book was a

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Spy who Came in from the Call by John Lecart.

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The top movie was The Carpetbaggers Jonahs Carol. He is

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a jerk business man. It's kind of like Howard Hughes

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was back in the nineteen thirties. Makes they're playing Dad's movies,

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Horse Around, Stars Grts Babard, Alan Ladd and Robert Comes.

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Nineteen fifty nine, the first Grammy Awards were held and

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giving out. The first song of the year was Neil

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Blue de Pinto de Blue by Dominico Mndingo. The first

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album of the year was The Music from Peter Gunn

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by Henry Mancini. Best Female Artists went to Ella Fitzgerald,

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Best Male Perry Como, Best Country of the Kingston Trio,

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Best R and B. That was the Champs for their

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song Tequila, and the Best Album Cover went to Frank

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Sinatra for only the Lonely All Right, Let's see happened

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in the World. On May of the fourth, seventeen seventy six,

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two months before everybody else did it, Rhode Island they

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declared his independence from Great Britain. Eighteen forty six, Michigan

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became the first state to ban the death penalty eighteen

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ninety three a cowboy, Bill Pickett, he invented bulldogging. It's

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where a cowboy jumps off his horse and grabs a

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steer by the horns and wrestles him to the ground.

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Today we call it steer wrestling. Do you think alcohol

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was involved in that invention? Nineteen twenty three of the

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State of New York, they repealed this Prohibition Enforcement Act.

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See all the prohibition laws were all federal laws. New

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York they said they were no longer going to enforce theirs.

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So that's pretty much what Colorado did when it came

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to marijuana. Nineteen forty two, in World War Two, the

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Battle of kor Sea began Japan. It was verse the

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United States in Australia. Now, it was the first naval

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battle in history that was completely fought in the air,

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all by airplanes, no ships fired on each other. Japan

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actually kind of won the ballot of less secutable ships,

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but they were held off. Was the first time they'd

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ever been denied. Going forward. Nineteen seventy in Kent, Ohio,

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the Kent State Massacre happened during a Vietnam War protest.

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National guardsmen opened fire on the students protesting. Four students

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were killed and eight others were wounded. Twenty twenty one, helimas, yesay,

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she set a world record. And we're in Morocco. Yep,

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she gave birth to non uplets, none uplets. That's nine babies. Yep,

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they all live. That's the first time that ever happened.

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Cot Co, cop goat shoge. This Shibf day, were gonna

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pu he left this Shibf day. We gonna sit with cage.

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He like this shibirth day.

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And you know, we don't give up because that's who

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was born on me. The fourth Bartolomeo Christophori. He was

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born in Venice in sixteen fifty five. Now, if I

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told you Bartolomeo he was the most one of the

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most important people in the history of music, would you

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have any idea why? Well, around the year seventeen hundred,

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he invented the piano. No one knows exactly how many

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pianos Christaphouri built, but three that he built in the

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seventeen twenties they're still around. Yeah, they're in museums in Rome,

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New York, and Germany. The piano is actually unique. It's

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the only musical instrument that can be traced back to

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one person creating it now, Christoph four. He was really

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a private guy, is almost reclusive. Don't know much about

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him other than that he died in seventeen thirty one

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and seventy five years old. Explorer Robert Speck. He was

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born in Devon, England in eighteen twenty seven. So what

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he'd do? He has the first person to find the

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source of the Now River. It's Lake Victoria. Yeah, it's

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Africa's largest lake. It's in Kenya, the taz Mania, Uganda.

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It has a big ass lake. He was the first

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European actually to see Lake Victoria. So then now wherever

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it runs from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea four

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one hundred and thirty miles. Now before Africa, Speck he

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actually explored the Himalayan mountains. Then he died in eighteen

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sixty four, thirty seven years old. He accidentally shot in

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his self for bird Honey. Actress Audrey Hepburn. She was

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born in Excels, Belgium in nineteen twenty nine. Regarded as

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one of Hollywood's top three legends of all time. After

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World War Two, she starred on the London stage and

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theater in that whole scene. She came to Broadway and

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then she hit huge in movies. She's an egot winner, yeah,

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one of only nineteen. She won an Emmy, a Grammy,

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two Tony's. She won her Oscar for a Roman Holiday.

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She's nominate four more times after that. She had one

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son from her first husband. She had one son from

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her second husband. She died from stema cancer in nineteen

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ninety three at sixty three years old. After Paul Gleeson,

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he was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen

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thirty nine. He probably know him best for playing the

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principal in the movie The Breakfast Club. He acts her

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first hit on the daytime soap Op For All My Children.

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Some of his other movies were Trading Places, Johnny be Good,

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die Hard Van Wilder. He had a daughter from his

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first wife, married a second wife in nineteen ninety five

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and they had a daughter. They were together until Paul

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died in two thousand and six from lund cancer at

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sixty seven years old. The way it was the Ashford

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and Ashford and Simpson was Nick Ashford. He is one

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of Fairfield, South Carolina. In nineteen forty one, Nick and

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his wife Valerie Simpson. They're one of the most successful

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songwriting teams of all time. Some of the songs they

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wrote were Ain't no Mountain High Enough, Ain't Nothing like

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the Real Thing, I Am every Woman. But they did

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pretty good as a singing duo. They had their head

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stuff like that, Count your Blessings, I'll be there for you,

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solid like a rock. They got married back in nineteen

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seventy four and had two daughters. Nick died from cancer

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in twenty eleven, seventy years old. That was Dolly Parton's

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younger sister, Stella Parton. She's seventy five. She was born

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in Severville, Tennessee, in nineteen forty nine. Now she's three

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years younger than Dolly. Dolly was the fourth and Stella

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was the sixth of the twelve Parting kids. Stella, She's

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on these forty albums, but her biggest success was in

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the mid to late seventies. She had It's I Want

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to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight, the Danger of

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a Stranger standard line number one. She's done some TV,

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a little Broadway. She spends a lot of time with

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the causes of domestic violence and drunk driving. She married

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right out of high school and they were there for

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four years and she has a son from that. I

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keep waiting, Kill.

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You keep.

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Can start like any star.

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Jesus.

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Country singer Randy Travis is sixty five. He's born in Marshville,

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North Carolina, in nineteen fifty nine. Now, when Randy started out,

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all the major record deals said he was too country

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to be a country singer. Finally got a deal in

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nineteen eighty five. Ten of his first twelve songs went

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to number one. He's got twenty three number one's total.

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Some of them are on the other hand, forever and Ever,

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am in deeper than the holler La carte, No hands Randy.

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He had to take a couple of years off. Yeah,

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he had a pretty massive stroke. But he has recovered

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enough that he's gonna actually do some shows this summer.

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It's been married to a second wife since twenty fifteen.

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Actress comedian Anna Gasteire. She was born in Washington, d C.

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In nineteen sixty seven. Fifty seven year old. She first

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got numb for Being on Saturday in li for six years.

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Then she had a recurring role on the Goldbergers for

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six years. She's done five Broadway shows. Some of her

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movies are what women want. Mean girls. Paul Blart Mall

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Coop two. She got married nineteen ninety six and they

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have two children. In Syncs. Lance Bass is forty five

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years old. He's born in Laurel, Mississippi. In nineteen seventy nine,

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during his junior in high school, Justin Timberlake called him

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up and asked him if he wanted an audition for

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a new band that Justin had just joined. Their bass

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singer had quit and they were looking to replace him.

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Lancey said okay, passed the audition and was a member

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of n SYNC. Since then, they've sold over seventy million

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records and saying they went thrown away when Justin left

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in two thousand and two. Supposedly they got back together

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last year, but I guess we'll all see. Lancey. He

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has his own production company and he did some acting,

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got third place on Dancing with the Stars. Married his

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husband in twenty fourteen and they have a son and

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a daughter. All Right, Today's factoid, not only will it

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win you a bear, but when you mint Julip So

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if you're celebrating one hundred and fifty ath running of

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the Kentucky Derby, just pull this little fact to it

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out on you. The Kentucky Derby. It was started by

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Lewis Clark Junior. He is the grandson of William Clark. Yeah,

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half of the William, Lewis and Clark Expedition. That's him. Well,

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thanks for being here. You know what. Let's end today

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with Hall of Fame football coach Don Shula. He died

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today in two at ninety years old. Don said, the

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superior man blames himself, the inferior man blames others. You

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guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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